Germany's Steinmeier: Israel should take closer look at Iran deal

WROCLAW, Poland, April 3 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday Israel's government,
which has said a framework agreement on Iran's nuclear programme
will endanger Israeli security, should take a closer look at the
deal.

Steinmeier said it was too early to celebrate the framework
deal, reached on Thursday in Switzerland, because there was much
work to do before a final agreement was signed.

"We ask the Israeli government to look more closely at the
agreement," Steinmeier, who was speaking through an interpreter,
told a news conference after talks with his French and Polish
counterparts.

"Its main points are intended to guarantee that security in
the Middle East... will improve, and not get worse," he told
reporters in the Polish city of Wroclaw.

On the framework deal, reached after more than a week of
talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne, Steinmeier said: "It is too
early to celebrate."

"We can be satisfied, but I hope equally that we can expect
that Iran will stick to the main agreements from yesterday."
(Reporting by Jakub Iglewski; Writing by Marcin Goclowski;
Editing by Christian Lowe and Peter Graff)